Precarious
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As our party rounded the final bend in the serpentine labyrinth - which had begun beneath Magi K'graznt's now smoldering castle keep, then steadily ascending toward the peak of Mount Decouste - we were met with a fierce gale of scolding wind. Peering over the lip of my shield, through watering eyes I glimpsed the towering figure before me. Now the growing stench of sulfurous fumes we'd been contending with made perfect sense. We had feared a rift linking ours to a lower plane or the para-elemental plane of magma, but it was something much worse.
Rearing up to strike was an enraged Red Dragon! Before we could react it opened its mamoth jaws and emitted a deafening roar as it charged our party. In the blur of its approach I spotted upon its brow K'graznt's rune of the eye and knew it had been enhanced by his evil wizardry. Gads! A Red Dragon is deadly enough without thaumaturgic assistance! A spinning dodge and luck narrowly saved my sword arm, then the beast was up again, head pulled back with the tension of a bowman's string, and all the air rushed from the room into its lungs.
Panic overcame us as we feared the inferno to follow...
The game is to identify this species. Gripen is exempt, but everyone else can take a guess.
The prize is your choice of a swift kick to the groin or a poke in the ribs with a pointy stick. No substitutions!
Something I noticed only after taking this photo is the third eye symbol in the center of its head. Really weird! I swear that is 100% real. It's easier to see in this smaller version of the photo.
Rearing up to strike was an enraged Red Dragon! Before we could react it opened its mamoth jaws and emitted a deafening roar as it charged our party. In the blur of its approach I spotted upon its brow K'graznt's rune of the eye and knew it had been enhanced by his evil wizardry. Gads! A Red Dragon is deadly enough without thaumaturgic assistance! A spinning dodge and luck narrowly saved my sword arm, then the beast was up again, head pulled back with the tension of a bowman's string, and all the air rushed from the room into its lungs.
Panic overcame us as we feared the inferno to follow...
The game is to identify this species. Gripen is exempt, but everyone else can take a guess.
The prize is your choice of a swift kick to the groin or a poke in the ribs with a pointy stick. No substitutions!
Something I noticed only after taking this photo is the third eye symbol in the center of its head. Really weird! I swear that is 100% real. It's easier to see in this smaller version of the photo.
